PC Boots, but looping! Eeek!

Deiwos

Deiwos

Deiwos

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Arrrrgh! So I've finally got everything installed in my computer. I get it into my room, switch it on, first message I get is something about No Floppy Drive detected. Ok, no problem, I just disabled the floppy in the BIOS as I don't have a floppy drive.

Next up, it boots to the 'we appologise for the inconvenience, but windows did not start successfully' etc. I'm currently looping round on this message now.
I've checked in the BIOS and my HDD and DVD Rom drives are all detected ok. Checked boot order, all is fine in that. I checked the voltages, and set the voltages to what the memory should need (2.0-2.2V) but that hasn't done anything.

Now, I created a CD with the up-to-date BIOS version in order to flash the BIOS, but it doesn't appear to want to boot from either of my drives.

Anyone think of anything I could try?

My rig is as follows:

BFG 680i Mobo
E6600 + Tuniq Tower cooler
Team Xtreem 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4
XFX Geforce 7900GT
Tagan 530W PSU
A Western Digital HDD of some kind (it came with my original unit which I salvaged it from)
1x DVD ROM Drive
1x Samsung DVDRW Drive
 
You can't reuse your old windows installation. On bootup, windows will still be looking for your old hardware and understandably throws a wobbly because it can't find any of it. You need to do a clean windows install however if your other windows license was not a retail one then youl will need to purchase a new license to use with this PC as an OEM license stays with the motherboard it was originally installed on and cannot be transferred.
 
Trigger said:
You can't reuse your old windows installation. On bootup, windows will still be looking for your old hardware and understandably throws a wobbly because it can't find any of it. You need to do a clean windows install however if your other windows license was not a retail one then youl will need to purchase a new license to use with this PC as an OEM license stays with the motherboard it was originally installed on and cannot be transferred.
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Balls, I figured it'd be the case. Guess I'm stripping this HDD out and backing it up on my laptop then.

Cheers.
 
Yeah - well this learning is half the fun. I know I begin to get bored of my PC if there is not some issue to research :)

You can often get away with your XP installation if you delete the IDE drivers in the Hardware Devices section and install the default IDE drivers from the XP disk. Then you can swap out the motherboard.

Not so sure about SATA though...
 
My mate has just upgraded from AMD3500 to intel 6600 and his PC started up fine.

He didn't try installing MB drivers or anything as he wanted a fresh install anyhow but it did work, he has Sata Drives.
 
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